Don't worry dad, I'm happy & safe

The kidnapped son of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called his father on Sunday after two years in captivity and told him he was well.

Ali Haider Gilani, 29, was seized by suspected Taliban militants in a hail of gunfire on the outskirts of the city of Multan in Punjab province on May 9, 2013, two days before the national election in which he was campaigning. His secretary and a bodyguard were killed and four people wounded in the attack.

"My son Ali Haider Gilani told me that he is happy and safe at (an) unknown place," Yousaf Raza Gilani told AFP after the phone call.

"He enquired about the health of his mother and other family members. He declined to disclose more. He said that we should not be worried about him."

Gilani senior was prime minister from March 2008 until he was sacked and indicted by the Supreme Court in April 2012 for refusing to reopen corruption cases against the then-president Asif Ali Zardari.